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decerebrating

decerebrating is the present participle and gerund of decerebrate.

Meaning of decerebrate

Verb

decerebrate (third-person singular simple present decerebrates, present participle decerebrating, simple past and past participle decerebrated)

  1. To remove the cerebrum in order to eliminate brain function.
    • […] and the correct principles of delivering it through the different straits of the pelvis after the head has been decerebrated and crushed.1876, “Is craniotomy, cephalotripsy, or cranioclasm, preferable to the Cæsarean section in pelves ranging from one and a half to two and a half inches?”, in Transactions of the New York Academy of...

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Questions about decerebrating

What is decerebrating the present participle and gerund of?
Decerebrating is the present participle and gerund of decerebrate.

Words near decerebrating in the dictionary

  1. deceptresses
  2. decerebellate
  3. decerebrate
  4. decerebrated
  5. decerebrates
  6. decerebrating
  7. decerebration
  8. decerebrations
  9. decerebrise
  10. decerebrize
  11. decerebrized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decerebrating (page history and authors); decerebrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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